{"id":4204,"date":"2011-09-20T21:09:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T04:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=4204"},"modified":"2011-09-20T23:19:40","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T06:19:40","slug":"hands-on-with-the-leica-m9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/20\/hands-on-with-the-leica-m9\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Came Early! Hands-on with the Leica M9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N-ZEaNitp1s\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"660\" height=\"365\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The day has finally come that I got my Leica M9 and 35mm 1.4 Summilux in the mail! I have always wanted one, and with the generous support of my loving mother paying for half of it, I am now a proud owner! I just wanted to thank everyone for my street photography journey and helping me live out my dreams. After all, if it weren&#8217;t you guys attending my workshops, writing comments, or spreading the word I couldn&#8217;t do street photography full-time. Also remember, the Leica is still just a tool. Don&#8217;t feel that you need to own a Leica to get good photos.<\/p>\n<p>Also for those of you who are curious, I am using the <a title=\"Custom SLR Glidestrap\" href=\"http:\/\/www.customslr.com\/products\/glide-strap \">Custom SLR strap<\/a> and <a title=\"YN 560 Flash on Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/YN560Flash\">YN 560 Flash<\/a>. You can also pick up some gaffers tape <a title=\"Gaffers tape on Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000QDRRIE\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=erikimstrph09-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000QDRRIE\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also planning on making a review for the Leica M9. Anything in particular you guys want me to go over? Let me know what you think in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day has finally come that I got my Leica M9 and 35mm 1.4 Summilux in the mail! I have always wanted one, and with the generous support of my loving mother paying for half of it, I am now a proud owner! I just wanted to thank everyone for my street photography journey and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[819,285],"class_list":["post-4204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video","tag-hands-on","tag-leica-m9"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}